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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
7
Special Saturday offer from Westphal the Jeweler features 33 percent off vases in the south window. Limited time discount highlights a selection of decorative pieces for shoppers.
Market report shows hogs at 10 cents higher with top 9.75 and 170 to 240 lb at 9.50 to 9.75, while cattle and sheep see varied ranges. Estimated tomorrow receipts include cattle 500, hogs 6,000, and sheep 7,000 as cattle steer groups and calves show steady to higher values across weights and classes.
Subscriptions staff reports brief items from nearby towns. Includes civic events, school updates, and local notices gathered by the Journal through its subscription network.
July 8 report lists residents visiting from various rural areas including Simmering, Brown, Gray, Vincent, Hagie, Carter, Woodford, Macon, Robertson. Ainsworth sees crowds. Wheeler cafe and Greens hotel plan moves for the future. Everett Simkins notes a growing lumber yard business at Ainsworth.
The notebook fragment recalls Liza answering a phone with a sharp retort You done called It Hugh Hazelett and his father return from Texas and old Mexico with a cousin owning vast land and a sheep ranch counting one hundred fifty five thousand five hundred and fifty head of sheep wool sold in sacks The entry notes Mrs Harry Hazlett visiting Pennsylvania and Crawfordsville residents commenting on dirt roads A local scene includes Rob Williams Deam Cherryholmes and a request for chicken feed and a humorous merchant exchange about a dry goods clerk and a well told Crabshaw dialogue
Chicago July 8 eggs market firm with receipts 15 405 and firsts 20 percent, 20 to 20 percent. Butter market steady to easy with receipts 17 661 tubs and extras 25 to 26 percent. Poultry market steady with springers 13 to 17 percent and turkeys 13 to 27 percent.
The text notes Bob sailed out to his store while W. J. Edgar and the Darbyshire boys cut wheat and oats north of Crawfordsville. Everett Swift from Washington R1 helped his brother Tom. Rain began to fall as Mrs. Swift followed in a car. Max Cuddy of Great Lakes keeps up with home news and thanks are extended to Max and his dad O. M. Cuddy.
Van Doran offers rolled oats while noting 70 acres. a kitchen mishap sees a recipe boiled and burnt. A light morning with roads drying is observed as a father and sons exchange questions about clouds and plans for home.
A backwoods woman and her husband share a rustic exchange as he warns about stepping on a live coal. She nonchalantly asks which foot implying no concern for the danger. The scene captures rough country humor through terse dialogue.
Chicago July 8 grain table lists open high low and close for WHEAT CORN OATS and RYE with July Sept and December quotes. Markets show small gains in some contracts while others hold or slip. Demand notes mention dividends in want ads.
Chicago cash corn bids show mixed ranges by grade with No. 1 yellow around 54 percent to 59 and No. 2 yellow near 59 to 59 percent. Soybean market opens with July at 87 and 87 percent, high 834, low 823 percent. Estimated carrot figure noted at 226.
The line all is quiet along the Potomac appeared in early Civil War weeks as a description of reduced military activity around Washington. The expression captured the lull before later battles and reflects wartime mood in 1861.
Clark Osterheld of Dane County Wisconsin adopts a pickup baling rig to save hay leaves and preserve color for higher sale value. Purdue designed colt creep aids suckling foals and beef calves. A DIY pair of 2 by 4 timbers reduces heavy lifting in carcass handling. Harry Dandiiger Jr of Richardson County Nebraska raises Chester Whites from a single litter, averaging 1.43 pounds daily gain and 286 pounds at 200 days.
Purina Mills expert W. R. Arends explains that veal aimed at fat and milk fat is not suitable for producing high yielding milking heifers. A separate diet emphasizing growth to build husky frames, not fat, is required for heifers intended as milkers. The Purina plan eliminates milk after 30 days to prevent beef tendencies.
A reading on common names notes that the groundhog in this country is the same animal as the woodchuck. Researchers point out interchangeable usage in folklore and scientific references.
Mineral wax or paraffin comes from petroleum. Beeswax and spermaceti come from a bee and a sperm whale. Wax insects in China produce a white wax on ash trees used for candles. Carnauba wax is from the Brazil palm and other vegetable waxes come from bay berry, sugar cane, and a sumac species.
The world's longest underground canal lies in France connecting Marseilles with Martigues Caronte and Port de Boue. It measures 4 percent miles in length with a 13 foot deep and 58 foot wide waterway and footpaths along both sides.
The Druses are a religious and warlike sect dwelling in the Lebanon mountains of Syria. Their religion dates from the eleventh century and is an outgrowth of Mohammedanism.
Early in 1814 workers drilling for salt at Duck Creek in Noble County Ohio struck oil. The oil showed promise but was not exploited and the well eventually ran dry.
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